I’ve been fishing redfish tournaments since 2014, but this tournament had already started off different. Good ol work decided to deny my leave so I had given up on hopes to fish the March 2022 Powerpole pro. Well a cold front moved in on Friday causing conditions for Saturday to be detrimental for a tournament, pushing it to Sunday. I left work excited Saturday afternoon and headed to the captains meeting for the tournament. My tournament partner Joe picked me up Sunday morning and we headed to Jacksonville with 0 prefishing done but with high hopes in landing two fish. The cold front had dropped the temps to 30 degrees, but the tides were just right for our style of fishing. We pulled boat 34 out of the bucket and headed off to our spot. Our first spot was 45 minutes from the ramp so the sun was already above the horizon and the water was rushing off of our spot. The wind was howling when we arrived and the temps were still around freezing. I look at Joe and we go to work. Castin...
Short stories of my adventures fishing the east coast of Florida